In case you guys don't know what bartering is, you offer a low price to initate some wiggle-room with negotiations, the seller usually comes back with a counter, and you go back and forth until you agree. While he offered lower than what you want, saying you would rather cut it in half is absolutely retarded, and tells me I would never even try to buy anything from you OP, since you wouldn't even consider a counter offer.

Honestly if you have a price in mind that you want, state the price and that it is FIRM.

If you are willing to negotiate, add OBO to it.

I am sick and tired of the "cliques" that this sport has recently developed. We should embrace the fact that we all ride a little kids bike, and not worry about the small details. When you take riding in its most basic form, we are all the same.

dave lawrence wrote: In case you guys don't know what bartering is, you offer a low price to initate some wiggle-room with negotiations, the seller usually comes back with a counter, and you go back and forth until you agree. While he offered lower than what you want, saying you would rather cut it in half is absolutely retarded, and tells me I would never even try to buy anything from you OP, since you wouldn't even consider a counter offer.

Honestly if you have a price in mind that you want, state the price and that it is FIRM.

If you are willing to negotiate, add OBO to it.

i gotta say i felt the same way reading this thread, i would still buy something off op though.

dave lawrence wrote: In case you guys don't know what bartering is, you offer a low price to initate some wiggle-room with negotiations, the seller usually comes back with a counter, and you go back and forth until you agree. While he offered lower than what you want, saying you would rather cut it in half is absolutely retarded, and tells me I would never even try to buy anything from you OP, since you wouldn't even consider a counter offer.

Honestly if you have a price in mind that you want, state the price and that it is FIRM.

If you are willing to negotiate, add OBO to it.

No worries......we just wont deal with each other either..........Ill add you to my Do not deal with list and you do the same for me.

Meh usually gives great deals on frames as it is. Why was the price he had posted worth trying to get lower. If I had 150 I would have gave it to him because you're basically getting a new frame. Some people have a reputation and hatebreeder's is amazing. He sells pretty new shit pretty damn cheap. I don't think 1 stumped not buying awesome parts cheap is going to hurt his sales because someone got but thrust that he said he would rather destroy the frame than sell it for 100.

dave lawrence wrote: In case you guys don't know what bartering is, you offer a low price to initate some wiggle-room with negotiations, the seller usually comes back with a counter, and you go back and forth until you agree. While he offered lower than what you want, saying you would rather cut it in half is absolutely retarded, and tells me I would never even try to buy anything from you OP, since you wouldn't even consider a counter offer.

Honestly if you have a price in mind that you want, state the price and that it is FIRM.

If you are willing to negotiate, add OBO to it.

you need to learn what you're talking about before you try to education someone.

barter means to trade for something other than money. go buy a dictionary dumb fuck.